Field Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)

The cloud is broken: It's wasteful, slow, awfully expensive, and burdened with legacy tech that wasn't built for today's workloads. At Unikraft we're building a generational, truly millisecond-native, extremely scalable cloud platform that provides exponentially higher efficiency. Are you bored with your current job? Want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the cloud to the absolute limit?

Our team consists of some of the best systems, performance, and security geeks out there, and is backed by top investors with category leaders as our customers. We believe a focused team of exceptional people, moving fast with conviction, can rebuild the cloud from first principles and make extreme efficiency (eg, millions of users on a few servers) available to everyone.

What You’ll Own

As a Field Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping both the user experience and our core infrastructure. You’ll work on real-world problems, engage deeply with customers, and operate across diverse environments and languages, from Rust and Go to Python and C++. You’ll be exposed to the full lifecycle of customer adoption, and your work will directly influence product direction and success.

Customer Deployments: Work directly with clients to onboard and migrate complex infrastructure onto Unikraft Cloud.

Infrastructure Optimization: Troubleshoot, refine, and ensure the performance and reliability of customer deployments.

Container & Linux Expertise: Leverage your hands-on knowledge of Docker, Dockerfiles, and Linux-based systems to support and scale infrastructure.

CI/CD Enablement: Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment and integration.

Technical Partner: Act as a trusted advisor, helping clients navigate the intricacies of next-gen cloud infra.

Product Feedback Loop: Collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering to incorporate customer feedback into our roadmap.

What We’re Looking For

Infra Fluency: Strong experience with containers (Docker, Dockerfiles), Linux, and CI/CD design.

Problem-Solver: Excellent debugging and optimization skills with a customer-focused mindset.

Communicator: Comfortable working across technical and non-technical teams.

Versatile Engineer: Computer science or equivalent background. Ability to learn fast and adapt to different runtimes, build systems, and environments (Rust, Node, Go, Python, C++, etc.).

Extra Points: Familiarity with OCI standards, QEMU/KVM, Firecracker, Cloud-Hypervisor, and direct customer-facing experience.

Why You’ll Love This Team

Next-gen product: A hyperscale-efficient cloud built for serious infra needs—built on research, battle-tested by customers.

Build your Favorite Work Set up: A generous equipment budget to spend on anything you need to do your best work.

Fully Remote, Fully Flexible: Work from your favorite place, work at your favorite and most productive times.

Retreats, Game Nights and More: Fun-focused team retreats and other events to recharge and build great relationships.

The Standard Stuff: Competitive Salary, 6 weeks vacation, development opportunities.